Maria Isabel Lopez | MariaIsabelLopezArt.com

Our guest is Maria Isabel Lopez, an award-winning actress from the Philippines who also represented at the Miss Universe Pageant, and an accomplished mosaic artist. Her creative career has taken her from pageants to film and now increasingly into visual art. She’s here to talk about her movie career, her latest film, Diamonds in the Sand, and her new solo exhibition, “Illumination in Glass,” opening 5–8pm, Saturday, Sept. 12, at Usher Gallery in Petaluma

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